SAVE Rivers wins Nationwide Civil Society Award

SAVE Rivers wins Nationwide Civil Society Award

SAVE Rivers, a community organization aimed at protecting the people and mega-diverse ecologies surrounding rivers in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, has just been recognized for its social and environmental efforts.  Awarded the nationwide accolade for civil society organizations, SAVE Rivers will take home RM 5,000 (US $1,152), and a…

Baram Dam on Hold, Twenty Thousand Villagers will Keep their Homes

Baram Dam on Hold, Twenty Thousand Villagers will Keep their Homes

After two years of continuous protest, the tribespeople of the Baram River can finally take a breath – a dam project that would have destroyed all their homes has been put on hold. If completed, the Baram Dam would have annihilated everything upstream, flooding 400 square kilometers of rainforest, destroying…

Blockade on Potentially Disastrous Baram Dam May be Lifted

Blockade on Potentially Disastrous Baram Dam May be Lifted

Mass flooding, environmental devastation and the displacement of countless indigenous people have characterized a hydroelectric dam campaign ramming its way through public opposition in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.  Construction of the Baram dam (the most recent of 12 proposed dams) has begun, but locals – having seen thousands of…